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Dave Matzek's legacy lives on

This is a two-panel photograph meme. The top text explains that the poster collects and likes old tools, and found the plaque attached to this 40-year-old 8ft tall industrial bandsaw surprisingly humorous. The left panel shows the full green vintage Northfield bandsaw, which has a standard safety sticker that reads 'THINK CARELESSNESS IS DANGEROUS'. The right panel is a close-up of a permanent red plaque mounted on the saw. The plaque reads: the machine was received at 9:00 AM on 8/25/77, and just 1 hour and 45 minutes later, it got its 'FIRST BLOOD' from Dave Matzek at 10:45 AM the same day. The joke uses the popular gaming term 'first blood' (meaning the first kill in a match) to refer to Dave injuring himself on the brand new machine the same day it was delivered, with the accident permanently memorialized on the plaque decades later, creating an ironic, darkly funny result.
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THINK CARELESSNESS IS DANGEROUS
Northfield
RECEIVED 9:00 AM 8/25/77
FIRST BLOOD DAVE MATZEK
10:45 AM 8/25/77

Overview

This is a two-panel photograph meme. The top text explains that the poster collects and likes old tools, and found the plaque attached to this 40-year-old 8ft tall industrial bandsaw surprisingly humorous. The left panel shows the full green vintage Northfield bandsaw, which has a standard safety sticker that reads 'THINK CARELESSNESS IS DANGEROUS'. The right panel is a close-up of a permanent red plaque mounted on the saw. The plaque reads: the machine was received at 9:00 AM on 8/25/77, and just 1 hour and 45 minutes later, it got its 'FIRST BLOOD' from Dave Matzek at 10:45 AM the same day. The joke uses the popular gaming term 'first blood' (meaning the first kill in a match) to refer to Dave injuring himself on the brand new machine the same day it was delivered, with the accident permanently memorialized on the plaque decades later, creating an ironic, darkly funny result.

Origin notes

This meme originates from 9Gag, as confirmed by the provided source information. The photograph was taken by a vintage tool enthusiast who encountered the old bandsaw with the unusual humorous plaque, and it has circulated widely among woodworking and DIY hobbyist communities online under the original title 'Dave Matzek's legacy lives on'.

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